Google released the latest version of its Android mobile operating system on Monday, adding security features that it says will make it tougher for mobile device users to be subjected to “clickjacking” attacks that trick them into clicking on hidden or disguised user interface elements.
Java has long been one of the more widely used–and widely criticized–technologies on the Web. It’s used virtually everywhere and roundly panned by security researchers for its security shortcomings. Now, a researcher has released a new tool, called JavaSnoop, that’s designed to help people better analyze and understand the behavior of Java applications.
Researchers are tracking a new botnet that has become one of the more active DDoS networks on the Internet since its emergence early last month. The botnet, dubbed “Darkness,” is being controlled by several domains hosted in Russia and its operators are boasting that it can take down large sites with as few as 1,000 bots.
A new paper from researchers at Verizon Business identifies a method through which an attacker can bypass Internet Explorer Protected Mode and gain elevated privileges once he’s successfully exploited a bug on the system.
The FBI has arrested the man that they allege is behind the notorious Mega-D botnet, which at one point accounted for nearly a third of all of the spam on the Internet. The arrest came to light this week after the man was caught entering the U.S. last month on his way to a car show.
Google has shipped a new version of its Chrome web browser to fix at least 14 security vulnerabilities that expose users to malicious hacker attacks.
The Chrome 8.0.552.215 update also include a new built-in PDF viewer that is secured in Chrome’s sandbox, according to a brief note posted by Google’s Jason Kersey.
As browser-based exploits and specifically JavaScript malware have shouldered their way to the top of the list of threats, browser vendors have been scrambling to find effective defenses to protect users. Few have been forthcoming, but Microsoft Research has developed a new tool called Zozzle that can be deployed in the browser and can detect JavaScript-based malware at a very high effectiveness rate.
Like the old adage that ‘he who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount,’ enterprises today are bounding along on the back of a particularly large and fearsome tiger. It’s called “consumer technology” and its shape is outlined by the myriad of devices and services that modern information workers are bringing to work and using – or want to use – to get their jobs done.
The main server used to distribute the open-source ProFTPD software was compromised over the weekend through the use of a bug in the FTP software itself, and a backdoored version of the software was uploaded and distributed for several days as a result.
An update to the popular Wordpress blogging platform fixes a known security hole that could have enabled a malicious contributor to gain wider control over the blog to which he or she contributed.
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